Chapter 79: The work of a tanner
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Trapped in the wind and snow, what else can people do in their houses?
Adults will tell their children overly exaggerated stories, especially the men who participated in the northern exploration. They told their children that those deer breeders were terrible enemies, and they beat them for the father.
Adults don’t hesitate to put gold on their faces to get the admiration of their children.
If the long time is just telling strange stories, life will also seem very boring.
Many people actually weave and repair hemp rope nets in their long houses, and repair long boats in larger wooden houses.
This time a large amount of animal skins were brought back. If they can't be processed quickly, the animal skins will decay. Using them to make clothes is not a good choice.
There are a group of professional blacksmiths in the Ross tribe. They found iron ore in the mountains and copper ore further away. Their iron smelting technology is not good. At present, they can only smelt raw iron with the ancient technology, and after a few beats, they can become a good axe.
Compared to iron smelting, their ability to make bronze is better, but the copper mines in this area are rarer and have lower output.
Most people of the tribe, their main way to obtain wealth and food is hunting and fishing. They make smoked fish jerky and a small amount of leather. While satisfying their own use, they sell additional products or complete transactions within the clan.
Leather trade is usually internal trade.
The blacksmiths of the tribe, they hardly participate in the work of fishing, and they rarely participate in large-scale collective hunting operations. Not even keen on the Sorgon sailing led by the leader Otto himself?
Why?
Because they are professional blacksmiths.
Every household of the tribe has its own metal equipment, and ironware is widely used in everyday life.
Those wrought iron tools that have been beaten to a low carbon content are easy to rust even if they are used. When some tools are badly rusted, they have to be handed over to the blacksmith to pay for refurbishment or buy a new one.
The blacksmiths will go to the mountains by themselves, carry suitable iron ore home, and make usable tools or weapons after a long period of smelting and forging.
In addition, the most important job is to repair.
Ordinary people, if their wood axe becomes blunt, or the blade is damaged, they still have to take it to the blacksmith to forge it and pay for it.
Perhaps, professional blacksmiths of various civilizations were their first chemistry experts.
Blacksmiths have to go deep into the mountains to find available minerals. In the process of searching, they will naturally dig some valuable amber, as well as a small amount of rubies and sapphires. They can always find some translucent minerals, such as crystal natural quartz, gypsum, and even alum and Glauber's salt, which are important to the tribe.
Alum and Glauber's salt can be found in the mountainous areas of this region. Since the day of discovery, the Ross tribe does not need to import these two “strategic materials” from the brother tribes in the south, and even export them on a small scale.
In fact, they are not particularly precious minerals, because these minerals are quite common in rocky mountains all over the world.
The central ridge of Scandinavia has many mineral deposits. The Ross tribe and the Mind Subtribe Alliance discovered that this ridge is rich in iron ore prematurely. Perhaps they had not thought about it at this time. Further mining and smelting of these ore will eventually result in the prosperity of Sweden and Norway.
The few blacksmiths seem to be the “geological experts” of the tribe. They are more focused on ironing. After returning to the tribe, the mined alum and thenardite are basically sold out immediately.
Especially those allies who live in the Ross tribe, some of them are not only businessmen, but also professional craftsmen.
These people buy and hoard alum and glauber's salt, and wait for the end of autumn when the hunters of the Ross tribe will continue to sell their newly-hunted animal skins to themselves.
So in some longhouses, it can be described as stinking!
But under the stimulus of huge wealth, it is totally worth it to endure the stench and continue to work.
Otto, the victory of the action brought him a hundred deer's profit, and 80% of the deer on the difficult return journey were sold by him halfway after they died.
He personally owns fifty fresh deerskins. Although they are fresh, they are hard to understand by the cold.
Otto does not lack animal skin clothes. He does not expect Niya to complete the complicated processing of fifty deerskins alone, and there is not enough material for processing animal skins at home.
He sold all the deerskins and directly earned fifty fine Roman silver coins, which he locked in his own money box.
The cold winter world is frozen, not only is the home of leather merchants smelly, but the whole family is also in the busiest time. Celebrating Hanukkah in the Rus tribe, it is more interesting to be able to experience the sunless days here than home in the south.
This is also a place of wealth. After processing a complete deer skin, throwing away the cost, selling two pieces can make at least one silver coin.
It can be said that this is a job that seems to make a profit without losing money, and it is indeed the case, that is, it requires a lot of labor from workers.
They hide in a warm home, first pre-process the fresh fur, scrape the meat and fat from the hide, and wash it with hot water.
Fortunately, outdoors is the snow at your fingertips, which can be done by melting and boiling.
Next is the nitration process that requires the participation of Glauber's salt, and the odor with trace toxicity is also overflowed. To complete this, there is also the tanning process involving the participation of alum.
When they completed all the processes and the animal skin became soft and extremely resistant to corrosion, spring also arrived, and soon the frozen sea melted to resume shipping.
Otto, and the masses of the Ross tribe, everyone does not know the leather craftsmen among their allies, and what kind of profitable business they are buying the fresh fur they have hunted.
Reindeer skin, it is warmer than sheepskin and has a larger surface area. It itself is quite expensive leather. The Sami people who are good at raising deer also met with the thinking sub-tribes going north, and soon changed from trade to war. The deer-raising community composed of small clans was destroyed one by one. Otto's actions this year were just doing what his ancestors did.
The deer breeders are losers. There are not many wild deer herds. Without the deer breeders, the reindeer population has also shrunk sharply.
Nowadays, reindeer are extinct in Jutland, and reindeer in Scandinavia are becoming rarer.
The Danes struggled to raise sheep and cattle, only to obtain important leather. Because of the conflict with the Frankish kingdom and the Slavic Wender tribe, the originally relatively harmonious bilateral trade became a mere plunder.
The Danes have become increasingly tense with their traditional partners, and their trade routes have been affected, and they have to resort to tough measures more frequently.
So the cobblers who live in Roseburg can row a long boat straight to the Danish territory, and of course they have to slip past it quietly. Although the conflict between the subtribal alliance and the Danes has become more and more serious in recent years, the private trade between the two parties is not really determined.
Everyone speaks exactly the same Gnostic language, and the language has not become too different due to geographical barriers. The businessmen directly claim to be Danes and belong to the same race of the customers. As for where the high-quality deerskins come from, the answer is also very tricky-grabbed from the Finns in the North.
It’s not an exaggeration to replace a processed high-quality reindeer skin with five sheepskins from a native of Jutland. Although this is a very risky behavior, risking the risk of being attacked by the Danes at least can earn twice or more than selling it to yourself.
This time, there were more than two hundred reindeer skins, as well as a large number of Arctic fox, ferret, wolf skins, and even ten white bear skins. In order to quickly exchange silver coins, Rose Hunter sold them all.
In this way, the locals in Roseburg praised their leader as a "brave adventurer" who bravely helped everyone get a great fortune.
The guest leathersmiths almost knelt down in front of Otto, praising the generosity of the leader with exaggerated smiles.
The cobblers have entered a rush that they have not been in decades, and the number of cobblers is small. This time they have to stay at home, and even young children must help.
Because the owner understands that in a frozen winter to complete a huge amount of work, the income gained is enough to bring him to his family for two to three years, and he can live a worry-free life without thinking about labor!
Therefore, in the wind and snow, some strange buildings have been smoky.
That is the blacksmith shop and cobbler workshop in the tribe, they burn charcoal intensively to carry out complex production work with high added value.
The wealthiest tribe is of course the leader Otto’s family, followed by the priests, and the third is undoubtedly blacksmiths, cobblers, and several extremely skilled carpenters.
The leader is the richest. There is nothing wrong with it. Because of the traditional rules of the tribe, the leader must legally get more spoils. The priest group is entirely supported by the entire tribe, and the priests are also made up entirely of women, but the number of them just seems to have more wealth per capita.
Those craftsmen, they are ordinary people in the tribe, and their identity also determines that they cannot become Valhalla's heroic spirits.
They can't even be Odin's servants because they believe in Thor.
People believe that Jinglei is the incarnation of Thor. This **** holds a sledgehammer in his hand. In people's mind, he looks like a young blacksmith.
All the blacksmiths worship Thor, as do other craftsmen. These people naturally don't need to fight to prove themselves, although they are people of the same tribe, they believe that they are actually protected by Thor.
Since the snowstorm started, the snowfall has lasted for five days!
Fortunately, only the first two days were terrible blizzards, followed by pure snowfall.
But this is not the beginning of peace. Every family’s house faces huge safety hazards. The heavy snow can easily crush the roof. So from the third day onwards, some residents have braved the wind and snow and cleaned their homes first. The snow at the door was then climbed up to the roof, and the wooden shovel used for plowing the soil was used to remove the snow as much as possible.
It is possible that only blacksmiths and leather smiths do not have to worry too much about snow. The inside of their longhouse is quite hot, and the snow on the roof cannot hold too much, and the slate at the chimney remains the same.
Leurik’s main time these days is spent on studying.
is just feeding the few deer hiding in the circle, Lumia can easily complete it. This is the only necessary task that Rurik arranged for the girl. During the rest of the time, he took the girl and learned the language of the deer breeder through the translation of Priest Veria.
Within a few days, Liu Rick has learned some of the most commonly used vocabulary, such as "eating" and "drinking water" and other phrases.
In contrast, Lumia has also learned a lot of Norse words and phrases. Due to the fact that there are still many tongue sounds in Gnostic language in this era, it is difficult to grasp quickly if you do not learn it from a young age, which makes the current pronunciation of Lumia's language quite strange. The ancient Sami language used by the deer breeders has tongue sounds, but it is not used as frequently as the Old Norse language.
Fortunately, Lu Mia has basically learned the most used vocabulary in ordinary life, and she has to use the newly learned vocabulary immediately in order to communicate with her master.
But, is Rurik really the master?
This little boy who is three years younger than himself, he bluntly claimed to be more willing to call his sister.
In fact, the child was called this intentionally at the beginning, but at that time he didn't understand Norse.
Lu Mia is even more touched because of this. What she longs most is her family. As long as there is a family who is willing to take care of her, the pain in her heart can be eliminated a lot.
It is the fourth day of snowfall, and the snowflakes are more dense than yesterday. Everyone believes that the snowy season will soon pass.
During this period, Liu Likla was carrying out a high-intensity study life with his servant in the chief priest's house, at least Otto thought so.
The lives of Otto and Niya have become more boring, and the two are more willing to hide in their warm house in the boring winter, watching their young son play. Although for several years, every cold winter, my son is using wooden sticks to sign strange symbols on the ground.
As long as they see this little guy, the couple will be satisfied.
One silent night, Niya's patience for many days finally broke out.
She asked her husband: "It has been several days, and Rurik is living in the priest's wooden house. Are you really relieved?"
"That kid is studying, of course I can rest assured. He said that he should not only be our leader, but also the leader of Novgorod, as well as the leader of deer breeders. This boy is challenging my authority, he His ambitions are also very lofty.” Thinking of many things that happened, Otto had mixed feelings, and facing his wife who was as old as his own, there were some things he could not say.
"But he is a seven-year-old kid."
"Ten years from now, I will be a seventeen-year-old child, my Niya. He loves to learn very much, and he will grow up to be a wise man. His words are not lying. You know, Rurik was originally from Arik’s Lavina is learning the language of the Novgorod people, and now he is learning the language of the deer people. Of course, to become the leader of a foreigner must learn the foreign language, you don’t have to worry about anything. He is your son, forever It’s all yours."
"But, I still like the way he runs around the house, or the way he messes with a wooden stick."
"Don't worry." Otto sighed, "Tomorrow, I will grab him, and his little servant. That servant is also learning our language, I just happened to see the girl's work. Listen, tomorrow We have to clean up the snow on the roof. If the roof is crushed, it will be difficult to repair."
"You reminded me that I will prepare snow sweeping tools now."
"Prepare more food." Otto added.
"Well, Rurik is very light. He climbed to the roof to sweep the snow and I don't worry that the house will collapse. It's you..." Niya chuckled, "He is too heavy, you must not go to the roof. Like last year, I was worried that the house would collapse."
"Then you can't completely count on Rurik. Prepare more food, and Rurik goes to the roof, and the servant must follow. Rurik wants to eat meat, and the servant has to eat meat, and prepare the amount for two people. "
"Huh? Why? A mere servant." Niya looked dissatisfied. "Just give that servant something to eat, such as some shark liver or something."
What Niya actually meant is that the food given to servants is a reward. Although it is a reward, you should also reward those unpalatable foods that can only be fruity, such as shark liver. Who would be happy to eat this strange-smelling food if it weren't for the sake of survival .
Otto rejected the idea of his wife. It is not how kind Otto is here, it is all because it is his son's servant.
"It's better to prepare more." Otto said, "You don't know, Rurik said in front of the priest, that servant is his future helper. Rurik eats meat, and servants eat meat, I don’t know. Why, Rurik pays special attention to this servant."
"It's weird, I have seen that servant, nothing special."
"No!" Otto shook his head~www.novelhall.com~ must be special to our son. Because that servant was personally tamed by him, don't talk too much about the servant in the future. If the servant is not obedient, he will be punished by Rurik, and we don't have to intervene. "
"Alright. Let's call Rurik back, and...the servant named Lumia. As long as that servant cleans the snow well, I will reward her. But you, that servant is not good at doing it. I can’t manage that much. Rurik is my son. If he doesn’t bear the heart, I don’t care, I will personally punish the servant who doesn’t work!
Feeling his wife's tough attitude, Otto deliberately asked: "What will happen to you?"
"I...at least...slap at least to warn the servant that he will be punished for being lazy."
Otto wanted to laugh presumptuously, but he closed his mouth just a few days ago when he thought of the incident a few days ago. "Don't think about it, continue to sleep, we have to sweep the snow tomorrow morning."
Otto didn't say much any more, he continued to rest tightly wrapped in animal skins, but his mind was full of imagination.
For the girl named Lumia, the son boldly rebelled against his authority and held his own sword.
Not to mention, if the brat's grandfather and his grandfather, some of his ancestors must have entered Valhalla, they should have seen this scene in the sky. They will also be happy for their unruly children and grandchildren.
Also, my own era is about to pass. It may be another ten years. At that time, the Ross tribe should be the era of Rurik.
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Trapped in the wind and snow, what else can people do in their houses?
Adults will tell their children overly exaggerated stories, especially the men who participated in the northern exploration. They told their children that those deer breeders were terrible enemies, and they beat them for the father.
Adults don’t hesitate to put gold on their faces to get the admiration of their children.
If the long time is just telling strange stories, life will also seem very boring.
Many people actually weave and repair hemp rope nets in their long houses, and repair long boats in larger wooden houses.
This time a large amount of animal skins were brought back. If they can't be processed quickly, the animal skins will decay. Using them to make clothes is not a good choice.
There are a group of professional blacksmiths in the Ross tribe. They found iron ore in the mountains and copper ore further away. Their iron smelting technology is not good. At present, they can only smelt raw iron with the ancient technology, and after a few beats, they can become a good axe.
Compared to iron smelting, their ability to make bronze is better, but the copper mines in this area are rarer and have lower output.
Most people of the tribe, their main way to obtain wealth and food is hunting and fishing. They make smoked fish jerky and a small amount of leather. While satisfying their own use, they sell additional products or complete transactions within the clan.
Leather trade is usually internal trade.
The blacksmiths of the tribe, they hardly participate in the work of fishing, and they rarely participate in large-scale collective hunting operations. Not even keen on the Sorgon sailing led by the leader Otto himself?
Why?
Because they are professional blacksmiths.
Every household of the tribe has its own metal equipment, and ironware is widely used in everyday life.
Those wrought iron tools that have been beaten to a low carbon content are easy to rust even if they are used. When some tools are badly rusted, they have to be handed over to the blacksmith to pay for refurbishment or buy a new one.
The blacksmiths will go to the mountains by themselves, carry suitable iron ore home, and make usable tools or weapons after a long period of smelting and forging.
In addition, the most important job is to repair.
Ordinary people, if their wood axe becomes blunt, or the blade is damaged, they still have to take it to the blacksmith to forge it and pay for it.
Perhaps, professional blacksmiths of various civilizations were their first chemistry experts.
Blacksmiths have to go deep into the mountains to find available minerals. In the process of searching, they will naturally dig some valuable amber, as well as a small amount of rubies and sapphires. They can always find some translucent minerals, such as crystal natural quartz, gypsum, and even alum and Glauber's salt, which are important to the tribe.
Alum and Glauber's salt can be found in the mountainous areas of this region. Since the day of discovery, the Ross tribe does not need to import these two “strategic materials” from the brother tribes in the south, and even export them on a small scale.
In fact, they are not particularly precious minerals, because these minerals are quite common in rocky mountains all over the world.
The central ridge of Scandinavia has many mineral deposits. The Ross tribe and the Mind Subtribe Alliance discovered that this ridge is rich in iron ore prematurely. Perhaps they had not thought about it at this time. Further mining and smelting of these ore will eventually result in the prosperity of Sweden and Norway.
The few blacksmiths seem to be the “geological experts” of the tribe. They are more focused on ironing. After returning to the tribe, the mined alum and thenardite are basically sold out immediately.
Especially those allies who live in the Ross tribe, some of them are not only businessmen, but also professional craftsmen.
These people buy and hoard alum and glauber's salt, and wait for the end of autumn when the hunters of the Ross tribe will continue to sell their newly-hunted animal skins to themselves.
So in some longhouses, it can be described as stinking!
But under the stimulus of huge wealth, it is totally worth it to endure the stench and continue to work.
Otto, the victory of the action brought him a hundred deer's profit, and 80% of the deer on the difficult return journey were sold by him halfway after they died.
He personally owns fifty fresh deerskins. Although they are fresh, they are hard to understand by the cold.
Otto does not lack animal skin clothes. He does not expect Niya to complete the complicated processing of fifty deerskins alone, and there is not enough material for processing animal skins at home.
He sold all the deerskins and directly earned fifty fine Roman silver coins, which he locked in his own money box.
The cold winter world is frozen, not only is the home of leather merchants smelly, but the whole family is also in the busiest time. Celebrating Hanukkah in the Rus tribe, it is more interesting to be able to experience the sunless days here than home in the south.
This is also a place of wealth. After processing a complete deer skin, throwing away the cost, selling two pieces can make at least one silver coin.
It can be said that this is a job that seems to make a profit without losing money, and it is indeed the case, that is, it requires a lot of labor from workers.
They hide in a warm home, first pre-process the fresh fur, scrape the meat and fat from the hide, and wash it with hot water.
Fortunately, outdoors is the snow at your fingertips, which can be done by melting and boiling.
Next is the nitration process that requires the participation of Glauber's salt, and the odor with trace toxicity is also overflowed. To complete this, there is also the tanning process involving the participation of alum.
When they completed all the processes and the animal skin became soft and extremely resistant to corrosion, spring also arrived, and soon the frozen sea melted to resume shipping.
Otto, and the masses of the Ross tribe, everyone does not know the leather craftsmen among their allies, and what kind of profitable business they are buying the fresh fur they have hunted.
Reindeer skin, it is warmer than sheepskin and has a larger surface area. It itself is quite expensive leather. The Sami people who are good at raising deer also met with the thinking sub-tribes going north, and soon changed from trade to war. The deer-raising community composed of small clans was destroyed one by one. Otto's actions this year were just doing what his ancestors did.
The deer breeders are losers. There are not many wild deer herds. Without the deer breeders, the reindeer population has also shrunk sharply.
Nowadays, reindeer are extinct in Jutland, and reindeer in Scandinavia are becoming rarer.
The Danes struggled to raise sheep and cattle, only to obtain important leather. Because of the conflict with the Frankish kingdom and the Slavic Wender tribe, the originally relatively harmonious bilateral trade became a mere plunder.
The Danes have become increasingly tense with their traditional partners, and their trade routes have been affected, and they have to resort to tough measures more frequently.
So the cobblers who live in Roseburg can row a long boat straight to the Danish territory, and of course they have to slip past it quietly. Although the conflict between the subtribal alliance and the Danes has become more and more serious in recent years, the private trade between the two parties is not really determined.
Everyone speaks exactly the same Gnostic language, and the language has not become too different due to geographical barriers. The businessmen directly claim to be Danes and belong to the same race of the customers. As for where the high-quality deerskins come from, the answer is also very tricky-grabbed from the Finns in the North.
It’s not an exaggeration to replace a processed high-quality reindeer skin with five sheepskins from a native of Jutland. Although this is a very risky behavior, risking the risk of being attacked by the Danes at least can earn twice or more than selling it to yourself.
This time, there were more than two hundred reindeer skins, as well as a large number of Arctic fox, ferret, wolf skins, and even ten white bear skins. In order to quickly exchange silver coins, Rose Hunter sold them all.
In this way, the locals in Roseburg praised their leader as a "brave adventurer" who bravely helped everyone get a great fortune.
The guest leathersmiths almost knelt down in front of Otto, praising the generosity of the leader with exaggerated smiles.
The cobblers have entered a rush that they have not been in decades, and the number of cobblers is small. This time they have to stay at home, and even young children must help.
Because the owner understands that in a frozen winter to complete a huge amount of work, the income gained is enough to bring him to his family for two to three years, and he can live a worry-free life without thinking about labor!
Therefore, in the wind and snow, some strange buildings have been smoky.
That is the blacksmith shop and cobbler workshop in the tribe, they burn charcoal intensively to carry out complex production work with high added value.
The wealthiest tribe is of course the leader Otto’s family, followed by the priests, and the third is undoubtedly blacksmiths, cobblers, and several extremely skilled carpenters.
The leader is the richest. There is nothing wrong with it. Because of the traditional rules of the tribe, the leader must legally get more spoils. The priest group is entirely supported by the entire tribe, and the priests are also made up entirely of women, but the number of them just seems to have more wealth per capita.
Those craftsmen, they are ordinary people in the tribe, and their identity also determines that they cannot become Valhalla's heroic spirits.
They can't even be Odin's servants because they believe in Thor.
People believe that Jinglei is the incarnation of Thor. This **** holds a sledgehammer in his hand. In people's mind, he looks like a young blacksmith.
All the blacksmiths worship Thor, as do other craftsmen. These people naturally don't need to fight to prove themselves, although they are people of the same tribe, they believe that they are actually protected by Thor.
Since the snowstorm started, the snowfall has lasted for five days!
Fortunately, only the first two days were terrible blizzards, followed by pure snowfall.
But this is not the beginning of peace. Every family’s house faces huge safety hazards. The heavy snow can easily crush the roof. So from the third day onwards, some residents have braved the wind and snow and cleaned their homes first. The snow at the door was then climbed up to the roof, and the wooden shovel used for plowing the soil was used to remove the snow as much as possible.
It is possible that only blacksmiths and leather smiths do not have to worry too much about snow. The inside of their longhouse is quite hot, and the snow on the roof cannot hold too much, and the slate at the chimney remains the same.
Leurik’s main time these days is spent on studying.
is just feeding the few deer hiding in the circle, Lumia can easily complete it. This is the only necessary task that Rurik arranged for the girl. During the rest of the time, he took the girl and learned the language of the deer breeder through the translation of Priest Veria.
Within a few days, Liu Rick has learned some of the most commonly used vocabulary, such as "eating" and "drinking water" and other phrases.
In contrast, Lumia has also learned a lot of Norse words and phrases. Due to the fact that there are still many tongue sounds in Gnostic language in this era, it is difficult to grasp quickly if you do not learn it from a young age, which makes the current pronunciation of Lumia's language quite strange. The ancient Sami language used by the deer breeders has tongue sounds, but it is not used as frequently as the Old Norse language.
Fortunately, Lu Mia has basically learned the most used vocabulary in ordinary life, and she has to use the newly learned vocabulary immediately in order to communicate with her master.
But, is Rurik really the master?
This little boy who is three years younger than himself, he bluntly claimed to be more willing to call his sister.
In fact, the child was called this intentionally at the beginning, but at that time he didn't understand Norse.
Lu Mia is even more touched because of this. What she longs most is her family. As long as there is a family who is willing to take care of her, the pain in her heart can be eliminated a lot.
It is the fourth day of snowfall, and the snowflakes are more dense than yesterday. Everyone believes that the snowy season will soon pass.
During this period, Liu Likla was carrying out a high-intensity study life with his servant in the chief priest's house, at least Otto thought so.
The lives of Otto and Niya have become more boring, and the two are more willing to hide in their warm house in the boring winter, watching their young son play. Although for several years, every cold winter, my son is using wooden sticks to sign strange symbols on the ground.
As long as they see this little guy, the couple will be satisfied.
One silent night, Niya's patience for many days finally broke out.
She asked her husband: "It has been several days, and Rurik is living in the priest's wooden house. Are you really relieved?"
"That kid is studying, of course I can rest assured. He said that he should not only be our leader, but also the leader of Novgorod, as well as the leader of deer breeders. This boy is challenging my authority, he His ambitions are also very lofty.” Thinking of many things that happened, Otto had mixed feelings, and facing his wife who was as old as his own, there were some things he could not say.
"But he is a seven-year-old kid."
"Ten years from now, I will be a seventeen-year-old child, my Niya. He loves to learn very much, and he will grow up to be a wise man. His words are not lying. You know, Rurik was originally from Arik’s Lavina is learning the language of the Novgorod people, and now he is learning the language of the deer people. Of course, to become the leader of a foreigner must learn the foreign language, you don’t have to worry about anything. He is your son, forever It’s all yours."
"But, I still like the way he runs around the house, or the way he messes with a wooden stick."
"Don't worry." Otto sighed, "Tomorrow, I will grab him, and his little servant. That servant is also learning our language, I just happened to see the girl's work. Listen, tomorrow We have to clean up the snow on the roof. If the roof is crushed, it will be difficult to repair."
"You reminded me that I will prepare snow sweeping tools now."
"Prepare more food." Otto added.
"Well, Rurik is very light. He climbed to the roof to sweep the snow and I don't worry that the house will collapse. It's you..." Niya chuckled, "He is too heavy, you must not go to the roof. Like last year, I was worried that the house would collapse."
"Then you can't completely count on Rurik. Prepare more food, and Rurik goes to the roof, and the servant must follow. Rurik wants to eat meat, and the servant has to eat meat, and prepare the amount for two people. "
"Huh? Why? A mere servant." Niya looked dissatisfied. "Just give that servant something to eat, such as some shark liver or something."
What Niya actually meant is that the food given to servants is a reward. Although it is a reward, you should also reward those unpalatable foods that can only be fruity, such as shark liver. Who would be happy to eat this strange-smelling food if it weren't for the sake of survival .
Otto rejected the idea of his wife. It is not how kind Otto is here, it is all because it is his son's servant.
"It's better to prepare more." Otto said, "You don't know, Rurik said in front of the priest, that servant is his future helper. Rurik eats meat, and servants eat meat, I don’t know. Why, Rurik pays special attention to this servant."
"It's weird, I have seen that servant, nothing special."
"No!" Otto shook his head~www.novelhall.com~ must be special to our son. Because that servant was personally tamed by him, don't talk too much about the servant in the future. If the servant is not obedient, he will be punished by Rurik, and we don't have to intervene. "
"Alright. Let's call Rurik back, and...the servant named Lumia. As long as that servant cleans the snow well, I will reward her. But you, that servant is not good at doing it. I can’t manage that much. Rurik is my son. If he doesn’t bear the heart, I don’t care, I will personally punish the servant who doesn’t work!
Feeling his wife's tough attitude, Otto deliberately asked: "What will happen to you?"
"I...at least...slap at least to warn the servant that he will be punished for being lazy."
Otto wanted to laugh presumptuously, but he closed his mouth just a few days ago when he thought of the incident a few days ago. "Don't think about it, continue to sleep, we have to sweep the snow tomorrow morning."
Otto didn't say much any more, he continued to rest tightly wrapped in animal skins, but his mind was full of imagination.
For the girl named Lumia, the son boldly rebelled against his authority and held his own sword.
Not to mention, if the brat's grandfather and his grandfather, some of his ancestors must have entered Valhalla, they should have seen this scene in the sky. They will also be happy for their unruly children and grandchildren.
Also, my own era is about to pass. It may be another ten years. At that time, the Ross tribe should be the era of Rurik.
Chief, times have changed.
Trapped in the wind and snow, what else can people do in their houses? Adults will tell their children overly exaggerated stories, especially the men who participated in the northern exploration. They told their children that those deer breeders were terrible enemies, and they beat them for the father. Adults don't hesitate to put gold on their faces to get the admiration of their children. If the long time is just telling strange stories, life will also seem very boring.Many people actually weave and repair hemp rope nets in their long houses, and repair long boats in larger wooden houses. This time a large amount of animal skins were brought back. If they can't be processed quickly, the animal skins will decay. Using them to make clothes is not a good choice. There are a group of professional blacksmiths in the Ross tribe. They found iron ore in the mountains and copper ore further away. Their iron smelting technology is not good. At present, they can only smelt raw iron with the ancient technology, and after a few beats, they can become a good axe. Compared to iron smelting, their ability to make bronze is better, but the copper mines in this area are rarer and have lower output.Most people of the tribe, their main way to obtain wealth and food is hunting and fishing. They make smoked fish jerky and a small amount of leather. While satisfying their own use, they sell additional products or complete transactions within the clan.Leather trade is usually internal trade.The blacksmiths of the tribe, they hardly participate in the work of fishing, and they rarely participate in large-scale collective hunting operations. Not even keen on the Sorgon sailing led by the leader Otto himself? Why?Because they are professional blacksmiths.Every household of the tribe has its own metal equipment, and ironware is widely used in everyday life. Those wrought iron tools that have been beaten to a low carbon content are easy to rust even if they are used. When some tools are badly rusted, they have to be handed over to the blacksmith to pay for refurbishment or buy a new one.The blacksmiths will go to the mountains by themselves, carry suitable iron ore home, and make usable tools or weapons after a long period of smelting and forging. In addition, the most important job is to repair. Ordinary people, if their wood axe becomes blunt, or the blade is damaged, they still have to take it to the blacksmith to forge it and pay for it.Perhaps, professional blacksmiths of various civilizations were their first chemistry experts. Blacksmiths have to go deep into the mountains to find available minerals. In the process of searching, they will naturally dig some valuable amber, as well as a small amount of rubies and sapphires. They can always find some translucent minerals, such as crystal natural quartz, gypsum, and even alum and Glauber's salt, which are important to the tribe.Alum and Glauber's salt can be found in the mountainous areas of this region. Since the day of discovery, the Ross tribe does not need to import these two strategic materials from the brother tribes in the south, and even export them on a small scale. In fact, they are not particularly precious minerals, because these minerals are quite common in rocky mountains all over the world. The central ridge of Scandinavia has many mineral deposits. The Ross tribe and the Mind Subtribe Alliance discovered that this ridge is rich in iron ore prematurely. Perhaps they had not thought about it at this time. Further mining and smelting of these ore will eventually result in the prosperity of Sweden and Norway. The few blacksmiths seem to be the geological experts of the tribe. They are more focused on ironing. After returning to the tribe, the mined alum and thenardite are basically sold out immediately. Especially those allies who live in the Ross tribe, some of them are not only businessmen, but also professional craftsmen. These people buy and hoard alum and glauber's salt, and wait for the end of autumn when the hunters of the Ross tribe will continue to sell their newly-hunted animal skins to themselves. So in some longhouses, it can be described as stinking! But under the stimulus of huge wealth, it is totally worth it to endure the stench and continue to work. Otto, the victory of the action brought him a hundred deer's profit, and 80% of the deer on the difficult return journey were sold by him halfway after they died.He personally owns fifty fresh deerskins. Although they are fresh, they are hard to understand by the cold. Otto does not lack animal skin clothes. He does not expect Niya to complete the complicated processing of fifty deerskins alone, and there is not enough material for processing animal skins at home. He sold all the deerskins and directly earned fifty fine Roman silver coins, which he locked in his own money box. The cold winter world is frozen, not only is the home of leather merchants smelly, but the whole family is also in the busiest time. Celebrating Hanukkah in the Rus tribe, it is more interesting to be able to experience the sunless days here than home in the south. This is also a place of wealth. After processing a complete deer skin, throwing away the cost, selling two pieces can make at least one silver coin. It can be said that this is a job that seems to make a profit without losing money, and it is indeed the case, that is, it requires a lot of labor from workers. They hide in a warm home, first pre-process the fresh fur, scrape the meat and fat from the hide, and wash it with hot water. Fortunately, outdoors is the snow at your fingertips, which can be done by melting and boiling. Next is the nitration process that requires the participation of Glauber's salt, and the odor with trace toxicity is also overflowed. To complete this, there is also the tanning process involving the participation of alum. When they completed all the processes and the animal skin became soft and extremely resistant to corrosion, spring also arrived, and soon the frozen sea melted to resume shipping. Otto, and the masses of the Ross tribe, everyone does not know the leather craftsmen among their allies, and what kind of profitable business they are buying the fresh fur they have hunted. Reindeer skin, it is warmer than sheepskin and has a larger surface area. It itself is quite expensive leather. The Sami people who are good at raising deer also met with the thinking sub-tribes going north, and soon changed from trade to war. The deer-raising community composed of small clans was destroyed one by one. Otto's actions this year were just doing what his ancestors did.The deer breeders are losers. There are not many wild deer herds. Without the deer breeders, the reindeer population has also shrunk sharply. Nowadays, reindeer are extinct in Jutland, and reindeer in Scandinavia are becoming rarer. The Danes struggled to raise sheep and cattle, only to obtain important leather. Because of the conflict with the Frankish kingdom and the Slavic Wender tribe, the originally relatively harmonious bilateral trade became a mere plunder. The Danes have become increasingly tense with their traditional partners, and their trade routes have been affected, and they have to resort to tough measures more frequently. So the cobblers who live in Roseburg can row a long boat straight to the Danish territory, and of course they have to slip past it quietly. Although the conflict between the subtribal alliance and the Danes has become more and more serious in recent years, the private trade between the two parties is not really determined. Everyone speaks exactly the same Gnostic language, and the language has not become too different due to geographical barriers. The businessmen directly claim to be Danes and belong to the same race of the customers. As for where the high-quality deerskins come from, the answer is also very tricky-grabbed from the Finns in the North. It's not an exaggeration to replace a processed high-quality reindeer skin with five sheepskins from a native of Jutland. Although this is a very risky behavior, risking the risk of being attacked by the Danes at least can earn twice or more than selling it to yourself. This time, there were more than two hundred reindeer skins, as well as a large number of Arctic fox, ferret, wolf skins, and even ten white bear skins. In order to quickly exchange silver coins, Rose Hunter sold them all. In this way, the locals in Roseburg praised their leader as a "brave adventurer" who bravely helped everyone get a great fortune.The guest leathersmiths almost knelt down in front of Otto, praising the generosity of the leader with exaggerated smiles.The cobblers have entered a rush that they have not been in decades, and the number of cobblers is small. This time they have to stay at home, and even young children must help.Because the owner understands that in a frozen winter to complete a huge amount of work, the income gained is enough to bring him to his family for two to three years, and he can live a worry-free life without thinking about labor! Therefore, in the wind and snow, some strange buildings have been smoky. That is the blacksmith shop and cobbler workshop in the tribe, they burn charcoal intensively to carry out complex production work with high added value.The wealthiest tribe is of course the leader Otto's family, followed by the priests, and the third is undoubtedly blacksmiths, cobblers, and several extremely skilled carpenters. The leader is the richest. There is nothing wrong with it. Because of the traditional rules of the tribe, the leader must legally get more spoils. The priest group is entirely supported by the entire tribe, and the priests are also made up entirely of women, but the number of them just seems to have more wealth per capita.Those craftsmen, they are ordinary people in the tribe, and their identity also determines that they cannot become Valhalla's heroic spirits. They can't even be Odin's servants because they believe in Thor. People believe that Jinglei is the incarnation of Thor. This **** holds a sledgehammer in his hand. In people's mind, he looks like a young blacksmith.All the blacksmiths worship Thor, as do other craftsmen. These people naturally don't need to fight to prove themselves, although they are people of the same tribe, they believe that they are actually protected by Thor. Since the snowstorm started, the snowfall has lasted for five days! Fortunately, only the first two days were terrible blizzards, followed by pure snowfall.But this is not the beginning of peace. Every family's house faces huge safety hazards. The heavy snow can easily crush the roof. So from the third day onwards, some residents have braved the wind and snow and cleaned their homes first. The snow at the door was then climbed up to the roof, and the wooden shovel used for plowing the soil was used to remove the snow as much as possible.It is possible that only blacksmiths and leather smiths do not have to worry too much about snow. The inside of their longhouse is quite hot, and the snow on the roof cannot hold too much, and the slate at the chimney remains the same. Leurik's main time these days is spent on studying. is just feeding the few deer hiding in the circle, Lumia can easily complete it. This is the only necessary task that Rurik arranged for the girl. During the rest of the time, he took the girl and learned the language of the deer breeder through the translation of Priest Veria. Within a few days, Liu Rick has learned some of the most commonly used vocabulary, such as "eating" and "drinking water" and other phrases.In contrast, Lumia has also learned a lot of Norse words and phrases. Due to the fact that there are still many tongue sounds in Gnostic language in this era, it is difficult to grasp quickly if you do not learn it from a young age, which makes the current pronunciation of Lumia's language quite strange. The ancient Sami language used by the deer breeders has tongue sounds, but it is not used as frequently as the Old Norse language. Fortunately, Lu Mia has basically learned the most used vocabulary in ordinary life, and she has to use the newly learned vocabulary immediately in order to communicate with her master. But, is Rurik really the master? This little boy who is three years younger than himself, he bluntly claimed to be more willing to call his sister. In fact, the child was called this intentionally at the beginning, but at that time he didn't understand Norse. Lu Mia is even more touched because of this. What she longs most is her family. As long as there is a family who is willing to take care of her, the pain in her heart can be eliminated a lot. It is the fourth day of snowfall, and the snowflakes are more dense than yesterday. Everyone believes that the snowy season will soon pass. During this period, Liu Likla was carrying out a high-intensity study life with his servant in the chief priest's house, at least Otto thought so. The lives of Otto and Niya have become more boring, and the two are more willing to hide in their warm house in the boring winter, watching their young son play. Although for several years, every cold winter, my son is using wooden sticks to sign strange symbols on the ground. As long as they see this little guy, the couple will be satisfied. One silent night, Niya's patience for many days finally broke out. She asked her husband: "It has been several days, and Rurik is living in the priest's wooden house. Are you really relieved?""That kid is studying, of course I can rest assured. He said that he should not only be our leader, but also the leader of Novgorod, as well as the leader of deer breeders. This boy is challenging my authority, he His ambitions are also very lofty. Thinking of many things that happened, Otto had mixed feelings, and facing his wife who was as old as his own, there were some things he could not say. "But he is a seven-year-old kid.""Ten years from now, I will be a seventeen-year-old child, my Niya. He loves to learn very much, and he will grow up to be a wise man. His words are not lying. You know, Rurik was originally from Arik's Lavina is learning the language of the Novgorod people, and now he is learning the language of the deer people. Of course, to become the leader of a foreigner must learn the foreign language, you don't have to worry about anything. He is your son, forever It's all yours." "But, I still like the way he runs around the house, or the way he messes with a wooden stick.""Don't worry." Otto sighed, "Tomorrow, I will grab him, and his little servant. That servant is also learning our language, I just happened to see the girl's work. Listen, tomorrow We have to clean up the snow on the roof. If the roof is crushed, it will be difficult to repair." "You reminded me that I will prepare snow sweeping tools now." "Prepare more food." Otto added."Well, Rurik is very light. He climbed to the roof to sweep the snow and I don't worry that the house will collapse. It's you..." Niya chuckled, "He is too heavy, you must not go to the roof. Like last year, I was worried that the house would collapse.""Then you can't completely count on Rurik. Prepare more food, and Rurik goes to the roof, and the servant must follow. Rurik wants to eat meat, and the servant has to eat meat, and prepare the amount for two people. " "Huh? Why? A mere servant." Niya looked dissatisfied. "Just give that servant something to eat, such as some shark liver or something."What Niya actually meant is that the food given to servants is a reward. Although it is a reward, you should also reward those unpalatable foods that can only be fruity, such as shark liver. Who would be happy to eat this strange-smelling food if it weren't for the sake of survival . Otto rejected the idea of his wife. It is not how kind Otto is here, it is all because it is his son's servant."It's better to prepare more." Otto said, "You don't know, Rurik said in front of the priest, that servant is his future helper. Rurik eats meat, and servants eat meat, I don't know. Why, Rurik pays special attention to this servant." "It's weird, I have seen that servant, nothing special." "No!" Otto shook his head~www.novelhall.com~ must be special to our son. Because that servant was personally tamed by him, don't talk too much about the servant in the future. If the servant is not obedient, he will be punished by Rurik, and we don't have to intervene. ""Alright. Let's call Rurik back, and...the servant named Lumia. As long as that servant cleans the snow well, I will reward her. But you, that servant is not good at doing it. I can't manage that much. Rurik is my son. If he doesn't bear the heart, I don't care, I will personally punish the servant who doesn't work! Feeling his wife's tough attitude, Otto deliberately asked: "What will happen to you?" "I...at least...slap at least to warn the servant that he will be punished for being lazy." Otto wanted to laugh presumptuously, but he closed his mouth just a few days ago when he thought of the incident a few days ago. "Don't think about it, continue to sleep, we have to sweep the snow tomorrow morning." Otto didn't say much any more, he continued to rest tightly wrapped in animal skins, but his mind was full of imagination. For the girl named Lumia, the son boldly rebelled against his authority and held his own sword. Not to mention, if the brat's grandfather and his grandfather, some of his ancestors must have entered Valhalla, they should have seen this scene in the sky. They will also be happy for their unruly children and grandchildren.Also, my own era is about to pass. It may be another ten years. At that time, the Ross tribe should be the era of Rurik. Chief, times have changed.
